Living Pretty With Your Pets: A Creative Day

I finally have a Living Pretty with Your Pets post again for this Friday. I want you guys to meet Eileen from A Creative Day and her pup Rowan. I found Eileen through the Blogger Stylin Home Tours. And I just had to ask if she’d participate in my series. Rowan is adorable and her home is gorgeous. I had to ask.

I’m Eileen from A Creative Dayand I’m excited to be here talking about life with our 18 month old twins and our sweet golden retriever, Rowan.

To give you a little history, I’ve always loved animals and was that little girl playing on the floor with any and every dog around. We always had dogs as a family, and when I was 13, we got our first golden retriever Bonnie. She was the best playmate, she went hiking and camping with us and solidified my love for golden retrievers. I skyped Bonnie when I was studying abroad in Italy in college and she was the first person to run out to meet me whenever I came home from school. I always knew I wanted a golden so when my husband Luke and I bought our first house in 2012 we got our golden Rowan a few months later.

You guys, I can’t handle how cute she is. She grew from this little sweet face pretty quickly into our 60 lb lap dog that is always at my feet and ready for a cuddle.

Hashtag model! One of the main reasons I knew I wanted a golden was how great they are with kids. They are so patient and don’t mind the ear pulling and wrestling that comes with little ones.

When my husband and I got pregnant with twins in 2014 Rowan already showed how good she would be with them. She was super gentle with me when I was pregnant, she stopped trying to jump on me and would lay her head on my belly to cuddle, I think she wanted to hear the twins heartbeats! The twins were born very early and spent the first two months of their lives in the NICU and when I came home from the hospital without the twins Rowan was so concerned. She would sniff all around us and we would bring her clothes and things of the twins for her to smell and she would always follow me to the washer and dryer every time I washed something of theirs. She knew they should be here and weren’t and it was so sweet to see her concern. When she finally got to meet them she was as great with them as we thought. She would lay down next to their swings and watch them and carefully walk around them.

And now that the twins are 18 months its so fun to see the relationship between the girls and Rowan evolve more into playmates. They get so excited to see Rowan first thing every morning and start squealing and running toward her saying “KITTY!” (They call her kitty because they love my mom’s cat and learned kitty for her and now assume that all 4 legged friends are kitties. It’s too cute. Rowan doesn’t seem to mind.) Rowan loves to play with them and that they can feed her off their highchairs and she is never far away when its eating time.

She never minds when I put her on cleanup duty in the kitchen.
I’m so grateful for our sweet girl and love that the twins get to grow up with such a perfect playmate and best friend. More of Rowan and the twins over at my instagram (@acreativedayblog) and lots of renovation fun. Thanks so much to Julia for having me, this was such a fun post to write!

Thanks so much for participating in my series Eileen. You have the best family. So sweet! Rowan has the sweetest face ever and you can just tell by her expression how gentle she is. Your adorable twins are going to grow up knowing what the love of a pet means and that is such a great lesson to pass on.

And now if you guys guessed that I’m obsessed with Eileen’s kitchen floor then you just know me so well. Isn’t it so so good? I can’t even express into words how much I love it. (click HERE to see more)

I’m a German citizen living in the US who is cuckoo for all things DIY, design and pets. This is my design journey on a budget. Come stay a while and look around. Click HERE to read more about me and HERE to see my projects and blog posts.

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